I have a cdrom drive F and a cdrw drive E and neither one
will work. They are recognized under my computer, but the
cdrom will not open and the cdrw will not close. I have
unplugged them, and plugged them back in and they still

is there any way of finding out what type of video card
you have without having to open your tower? Thanks

Hi, i have recently got a USB flash disk and installed it and everything went fine (it came with a install disk for win 98).  But i cannot see it in my computer.  I went into device manager and there was a problem with USB Memory Bar drive, i opened up the dialog box and it said ...

many seem superfluous.  Safe to delete some, most seem like inf files for
things that will never be used on this computer

Things were running fine.  I just wanted to see what happened if I were to
"restart in MS DOS mode."  I clicked Start>Shut Down> Restart in MS DOS MODE
and it shut down but when it restarted it hung up quickly when something
about PLUG and PLAY appeared on the screen.  I waited ...

I want to buy an external hard drive from Seagate or
Western Digital.
Both product families, however, specify a minimum of Win
98 SE. I only have Win 98.

I have lost the driver for a sound card (which by the way
is a generic sound card not brand name) and I was
wondering if there was a website somewhere that I could
download a generic driver to get the basic sound card

I have this pop up message that will not go away no matter
howmany time I click on it and I do not know what it means.
I have run virus software and spyware checkers but I
cannot figure out what to do.

My eyes are bad and I have a lot of trouble finding and
following the cursor arrowe.
How can I make it solid black, or maybe red"

Is it possible to de-activate my desktop?

I am using 98SE and have been since 2000.  I have
developed a Trojan that I am trying to rid myself of by
reloading my 98SE operating system.  I have used this fix
in the past for other issues.  This time when I used by

This last two days, when I hit the right mouse button to bring up the menu,
my computer just freezes.  You can see the egg timer symbol, but nothing
else happens. I tried changing the mouse, but this is not the problem.
Any help would be appreciated.

Windows 98, Dell, 333 MH, 64 MB Ram.
Lately every few days, the available resources shrink.  For example,
right now, with the heavy applications all off (Word, OE, IE), my
available resources are only 23 percent free.  Normally it would be much

I have wiped the hard drive of one of my older computers
and want to reinstall the OS. a task that I am familiar
with but; however, when I turn the computer on I get an
invalid system disk error which you usually see if you

I did install IE6 recently with Microsoft update. Now got the CD with IE6,
but the problem is, when I'm trying to install (as demand) pan-european
language support, IE wants to install it from Internet instead my CD. How do
I make IE to look for it from CD, not from Microsoft update ...